simpler

as in things just got a whole hell of a lot simpler this morning.

plan was to get the van's brakes checked out, dealer is following up on a warranty issue that we've been chasing for a long time.  Rear driver's side brake makes noise, gets wicked hot, aka not normal, potentially unsafe, but intermittent and a pain in the ass, and kind of a mystery.

So they all take off, in van, drop off at school, head to dealer, pop out to warm up the rusty race wagon... click.  wait what?

Let me try that again, turn key, glow plug light goes off, click. silence.

Starter.  something. So.  repeat of the PVD week.  Hey it THAT was also a Thursday morning.  What do you know.  I get two weeks out of the the new starter I guess.  Could be that it is cold, and when I get home after a day of warming up a few degrees it might fire right up. No hill here or I might have tried push starting it.

I'm making a bigger deal out of it than I should. But it is something that initially frustrated me.  Not something that should be going wrong.  Lots of other stuff can happen, this? Oh well.  Move on.

It makes this weekend much simpler.  No racing, time for some shade tree (street) mechanic working and what not. Hell I think I can probably even get the fucking starter out w/o trying to push the car up on the ramps (like last time, oof, that takes a bit of luck and leg strength to push a +3,000# car up a set of Rhino ramps).

So who wants to go for a long ride?

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